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Hardware
Sebastian Sarbora edited this page Mar 3, 2015
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The hardware of this project is supposed to comprise a few different systems, all of which will hopefully be on the same main controller board.
Some of the main features required:
- Brushed motor controllers
- Ethernet Connectivity
- Magnetometer and Accelerometer on board
- High Power LED Light control
- Power regulation on board 3.3v, 5v, 12v
- Raspberry PI Header Connections
- Arduino Header Connections
- PWM connections (Servo control)
- I2c, SPI, and UART connections for expandability
Compatibility with the Raspberry Pi and other devices is meant specifically to allow the control board to act as a slave to the Pi through ethernet, UART, or one of the various other interfaces. The Pi could provide the heavy lifting for semi autonomous algorithms, or even have most of the host application hosted as a web page, to offload some of the processing back into the device.
The following IC's have been selected for the main control board to support the functions listed next to them:
- Wiznet w5500 - Ethernet connectivity
- DRV8801 - Motor Controllers
- LSM303DLHC - Accel, Mag
- AL8805W5 - LED Driver